Nice! That reminds me of my son. I have a hill in the backyard. When he was about 10 his job was to make sure the grass was cut. He could cut the grass on most of the yard with our John Deere riding lawn mower. But the hill was too steep and I had a cheap push mower for it. At 10 years old he could pull start the push mower. He was creative. My son tied a rope to the mower and pushed the mower over the edge where it ran down the hill. He would then pull it back up the hill with the rope and repeat.
Why we win. USA! USA! USA!
I had a great-uncle who did this. Got his picture in the local paper back in the late 1960s, too. Showed him in a chair reading the paper while his mower went around the pole. Funny…
I remember seeing that in Roy Doty’s Wordless Workshop in Popular Science magazine. Might even still have that issue.
You know, those old Pop Sci and Pop Mechanics mags had a lot of useful info on doing things for yourself that may become a lot more relevant here shortly.
Fireball Tool built a lathe oiler on his YouTube channel from an article in a 1963 Pop Mechanics mag.
Ah, glasshoppah, how can you set it to automatically shut off when it’s done?
Nice! That reminds me of my son. I have a hill in the backyard. When he was about 10 his job was to make sure the grass was cut. He could cut the grass on most of the yard with our John Deere riding lawn mower. But the hill was too steep and I had a cheap push mower for it. At 10 years old he could pull start the push mower. He was creative. My son tied a rope to the mower and pushed the mower over the edge where it ran down the hill. He would then pull it back up the hill with the rope and repeat.
Why we win. USA! USA! USA!
I had a great-uncle who did this. Got his picture in the local paper back in the late 1960s, too. Showed him in a chair reading the paper while his mower went around the pole. Funny…
I remember seeing that in Roy Doty’s Wordless Workshop in Popular Science magazine. Might even still have that issue.
You know, those old Pop Sci and Pop Mechanics mags had a lot of useful info on doing things for yourself that may become a lot more relevant here shortly.
Fireball Tool built a lathe oiler on his YouTube channel from an article in a 1963 Pop Mechanics mag.
Ah, glasshoppah, how can you set it to automatically shut off when it’s done?
The exercise is left to the student to solve…